Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] not [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panel apparently chose not to have a permanent chairman on two grounds : first because it was believed that subgroups would quickly emerge to focus on particular issues and events and that these would evolve their own arrangements , and secondly to avoid the possibility of particular individuals dominating proceedings . |
| 2 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 3 | The scoreline perhaps did not reflect the effort which Down put in but Bangor were more clinical in finishing off their moves . |
| 4 | To our surprise , we did not observe any influence of age , sex , and body mass index upon the success rate and the recurrence rate ; even the initial number of stones apparently did not influence the recurrence rate , which is in contradiction with the postdissolution experience where the recurrence was higher in patients with multiple stones than with solitary stones . |
| 5 | Administration of L-arginine alone did not alter the resting blood pressure in untreated animals . |
| 6 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss in her concluding remarks on Dr Higgs 's role stated that ‘ She alone did not create the crisis . |
| 7 | John MacCunn , Professor of Philosophy at Liverpool University and author of several standard texts on citizenship and character , was keen to impress upon his readers that rights alone did not make the citizen ; what mattered was the way in which they were used : democracy itself was only a beginning , not an end . |
| 8 | But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director , he had absolutely no intention of getting one . |
| 9 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 10 | He pointedly did not release the 539 delegates he has already amassed . |
| 11 | The talk was a little on the short side , but even so did not hold the attention as well as it might have . |
| 12 | Cuban officials had made clear that these spoiled or blank ballots would not be considered valid and so did not affect the election . |
| 13 | It was early yet — not even six o'clock — and they were high on spending money and trying lovely outfits on , so did not give a toss . |
| 14 | The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote . |
| 15 | Darwin 's image of an irregularly branching tree thus did not fit the evidence . |
| 16 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 17 | Having eaten well the day before he was not hungry and anyway did not trust the Men . |
| 18 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 19 | The reason why that was founded was because we thought that the women 's movement in this country and its channels of communication and its publications and so on , including Spare Rib at the time , just did not reflect the struggles of either Black women in this country or any other movements within other countries , especially within Third World countries . |
| 20 | These instances arose because the recipients just did not read the letters sent to them . |
| 21 | I just did not like the sound of this woman . |
| 22 | There was no way for users to communicate their difficulties to designers and systems just did not warn the inexperienced of potentially dangerous actions . |
| 23 | This place just did not have the necessary staff levels for my needs , as I was classed as requiring heavy care . |
| 24 | ‘ On a couple of occasions we just did not get the bounce of the ball . |
| 25 | The actor just did not know the lines , and , though he could manage the exchanges of dialogue quite well , every time he came to a big speech , he would dry . |
| 26 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 27 | They generally did not promote the sale of fires through showrooms or canvassers , and in the Eastern Board even banned their sale for several years until the peak capacity shortage eased . |
| 28 | Consultants generally did not see the preregistration year as an educational process . |
| 29 | Editor , — Stella Lowry underplays a striking finding of David Wilson 's survey of 33 consultants in Yorkshire : he found that consultants generally did not see the preregistration year as an educational process . |
| 30 | Nineteen twenty nine , it was in the nineteen thirties when there was the depression people just had not got the money to really provide for the baby as they would do , well they would do now . |